Display Images with SQL Developer

Images can be stored as a BLOB in the database. SQL Developer can show them as well.

Step 1) Create a Table to store the image in

create table t
(img blob);

Step 2) Upload an Image




Choose an image from your file system, and commit your changes.

Step 3) On the "Data" tab, click the "..." button with the BLOB column.


Step 4) In the dialog box, check the "View as Image" box


And that's it... Looks a lot better than SQL*Plus would display images :)

SQL> select img
  2    from t
  3  /
SP2-0678: Column or attribute type can not be displayed by SQL*Plus
SQL>